The drama, which has its world premiere at Cannes, centers on a soldier who seeks out the family he devastated — and what it takes to make a combat film that tells the truth.

Kenneth Branagh plays a fictionalized version of combat journalist Dexter Filkins, whose 2012 New Yorker article chronicled the desire of a U.S. Marine to reconcile with an Iraqi…

The drama, which has its world premiere at Cannes, centers on a soldier who seeks out the family he devastated — and what it takes to make a combat film that tells the truth.